Becket
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King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.

  • Released: 1964-03-11
  • Runtime: 148 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, History
  • Stars: John Gielgud, Gino Cervi, Paolo Stoppa, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt, Percy Herbert, Siân Phillips, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis, Christopher Rhodes, Magda Konopka, Inigo Jackson, Frank Pettingell, Véronique Vendell, Jennifer Hilary, Hamilton Dyce, Peter Jeffrey, Peter Prowse, Alex Scott, John Moulder-Brown  Show all >
    George Lane Cooper, Rose Howlett, Dido Plumb, Roy Beck, Royston Tickner, Pamela Brown, David Davenport, Frederick Piper, Guy Deghy, Linda Marlowe, Edward Woodward, Michael Anthony, Paul Farrell, Riggs O'Hara, John Phillips, Magda Konopka, Terence Soall, Patrick Newell, Elizabeth Taylor, Ivor Dean, Garrett Cassell, Gerald Lawson, Victor Spinetti, Chris Adcock, Tutte Lemkow, Fred Stroud, Paul Layton, Wilfrid Lawson, Graham Stark, Richard Burton, Dave Clark, Ian Cullen, Robert Rietti, Steve Plytas, Peter O'Toole, Geoffrey Bayldon, Fred Wood, Michael Miller, Patrick Halpin
  • Director: Peter Glenville